General Notes

Robert de Tibetot, who in the 50th of Henry III, 1266, was made Governor of the Castle of Porchester, and having attended Prince Edward to the Holy Land, was in high favour after he had ascended the throne as Edward I, being then constituted Governor of Nottingham Castle, Justice of South Wales, and Governor of the castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan. In the 13th of the same reign, 1285, he had a grant from the son of Gerard de Rodes to himself, his wife and his son, in fee of the manors of Langar and Berneston, in Nottinghamshire. In the 20th of Edward I, being the King's Lieutenant for Wales, he fought and defeated Rees ap Meredith, in a great battle wherein 4000 Welshmen were slain and Rees himself, having been made a prisoner, was conveyed to York and there executed. Robert de Tibetot was subsequently in the wars of Gascony and Scotland.